: Re: How can I show time passing with no way to measure time? In the writing, I was doing recently, a character is locked up in a wagon and dragged across the country by rich slavers. How could

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If it were a film, you might likely see a montage of the prisoner waking and each time either falling back into a stupor, being drugged, or beaten, or fed. They might get progressively more dirty and unkempt.
You might see this overlaid with the wagon constantly riding through the countryside.

In written medium you must convey this explicitly but you can.

The prisoner woke. He slept. He woke. He slept. Night followed day,
day followed night. At intervals the wagon stopped and he was roughly
shaken awake to eat mouldy bread and drink rancid water. Every 6 or 7
stoppages, a bucket of the same water was thrown over the prisoners to
wash off the worst of their filth, and the other, unmentionably-filled
buckets were removed and emptied.

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